“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
Oscar Wilde
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216 quotes on life and the lessons it teaches — from the classics to the everyday.
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“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
Stephen King · On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, 2000
“If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book.”
J.K. Rowling
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
Joseph Addison · The Tatler, 1710
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
Ernest Hemingway
“I cannot live without books.”
Thomas Jefferson · Letter to John Adams, June 10, 1815
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
George R.R. Martin · A Dance with Dragons, 2011
“Heartbreak is my greatest inspiration. I wish it wasn't, but it is.”
Oliver Tree
“I've always felt like I existed outside of every group.”
Oliver Tree
“The whole thing is a joke, but the pain is genuine.”
Oliver Tree
“I want people to feel like they're not alone in being a mess.”
Oliver Tree
“I've always been the weird kid, the outcast. I just decided to own it.”
Oliver Tree · NME interview, 2020
“Everything I do is a character, but the emotions are real.”
Oliver Tree · Rolling Stone interview, 2020
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
Victor Hugo · Les Misérables, 1862
“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.”
Isak Dinesen
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
Louisa May Alcott · Little Women, 1868
